Apply a Little 'Narnia' Magic with NUKE
Transform Your Projects - Breath Life Into Them
Want to bring a project to life? Compositors are responsible for piecing all the elements together within a scene, but also for telling a story that is both natural and believable. By including a few simple procedural paint reveals, you can help make your scene more dynamic in the subtlest of ways. Whether you’re creating a heat haze effect out of a jet engine, adding a ripple effect to water, enhancing a volcanic epi-centre, or making your own cool glowing daemon spirit, there is a way to enhance and bring those basic elements to life.
NUKE-ed: The tutorial in more detail
In this tutorial Davi Stein, Head of 2D here at Escape Studios, looks into how some straight forward techniques inside NUKE can make all the difference. Based on a technique Davi used while working on Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, there are a range of distortion effects as well as a procedural reveal you can take advantage of, allowing you to create a stunning filmic look.
Highlights:
- Enhance basic elements with distortion effects in NUKE
- Procedural paint reveals
- 'Write On' techniques in the RotoPaint node
- Dynamics nodes: GodRays, Frame Blend, Erode, Emboss and iDistort
- Maintaining detail in highlights and shadows
- Animate effects inside NUKE
Total video time: 31:30
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